Locomotive-tender.



C.v L. HEISLER.'

LOCOMOTIVETENDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2. 1915.

Patented June 13, 1916.

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l I t s m "l l ,2s Rif 38 J7 m I d/f/ o :12 li 1- /j 1 /5 CHARLES L. HEISLER, OF SCHENECTADY, NEW YUM,

LUCOMOTIVE-TENDEE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented l une 13, 1216..

Application med September 2, 193.5. Serial No. etS.

To aZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that l, CHARLES L. Hurston,

a citizen of the United States, and resident the accompanying drawings, forming a part gsi thereof.

The invention relates to improvements in the coal bin of a locomotive tender, and to improved means for moving the coal forwardly in the bin to bring it within convenient reach of the fireman.

Because of the large size of modern locomotives their tiring becomes a serious problern, and the improvements herein shown and described are intended to relieve. the fireman, 'to a considerable extent, of encessive labor in feeding the fuel to the firebozr.

To this end the invention consists in part in providing an elevated shoveling platform at the forward end of the fuel bin, and in part of improved means for moving the fuel forwardly in the bin and depositing it upon the shoveling platform.

The invention is fully hereinafter described, and is illustrated in the accompany ing drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a detail vertical longitudinal section through the forward end of a tender and the rear end of a locomotive; Fig. 2 is a similar detail of the forward end of the tender, showing a modified form of construction; and Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of the forward end of the tender, showing the construction illustrated in Fig. 1.W

The rear wall of the lire-box of a locomotive is represented at 10, its firing door at 11, and its cab floor or ring deck at 12.

ln Figs. l and 3 a tender of ordinary form is shown, the side walls of its fuel bin being represented at 13, the rear and inclined wall thereof at 14, and its floor at l5. At 16 there is represented the usual fuel ate. g The floors 12 and 15 of the locomotive cab and tender, respectively, are upon a level, and the intervening space between these floors is bridged` as usual, by means of a plate 17, secured to one of them and slidingly overlapping the other. These floors are considerably below the tiring door 11,

as locomotives are usually constructed, and when the reman is obliged to shovel the coal from the tender floor his labor consists largely in the lifting movement to bring his shovel to the level of the door. lnasmuch as he is required to shovel a large quantity of coal daily this lifting movement is very laborious.

in elevated shoveling platform is shown at 18 and as crossing the forward portion of the coal bin and being on substantially the level of the firing door 11. Preferably, as shown in F ig. 1, this platform is vertically adjustable, thereby adapting it for use in connection with diferent locomotives havu ing their firing doors at varying elevations. To this end the inclined approach 19 to the elevated shoveling platform consists of a. plate hingedly attached, as shown at 20, to the floor of the tender, and, as shown 21, to the rear edge of the platform 18.

.any suitable means be employed for vertically adjusting and supporting the platform 18. For this purpose there is shown a pair of screw-rods 22, 23, each journaled in a pair of boxes 21;, 25, secured to the side wall of the tender, the upper end of the rod being provided with a hand wheel 26 and its lower end being in threaded engagement with a cross-head 2?, attached by means of links 28, 29, to the platform 18. When the shoveling platform is lowered from the position shown in Fig. 1, it swings forwardly, owing to the (movement of the plate 19 about the pivot 20, and this forward movement is permitted by the connection between the platform and the cross-head 27.

A coal passer for transferring the fuel to the forward end of the bin is shown as of the general type of the coal passer forming the subject of Letters Patent No.1,088,418, issued to me February 24th, 1914. ln the present structure the transferring means comprises a pair of pushing abutments 30, 31, hinged together, as shown at 32. A push rod 33 connects the rear abutment 30 with a gear rack 3a cooperating with a gear 35, carried by a shaft 36, journaled in suitable boxes mounted on the top wall 37 of the tank of the tender and adjacent the upper edge of the inclined rear wall 19. By means of the gear mechanism the two pushing elements may be drawn up against the wall 14,

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itil@ Any suitable mot'or 40 may employed for driving the shaft 36.

In Fig. 2 there is shownv a permanently xed' elevated shoveling platform 41. When this form of'construction is followed the` platform, its inclined approach 42, and its front supporting wall 43 may be made of a. single plate. Various other changes may be made in the structure without departing from the scope of the invention.

I claim as my invention- 1. A. locomotive tender having a shoveling platform at the forward end of the fuel bin and elevated above the Hoor of the bin.

2.' A locomotive tender having a shoveling platform at the forward end of the .fuel bin and elevated above the Hoor of the bin, andan inclined apronleading from-the bin floor to the platform.

'3. A locomotive tender having a verticallyadjustable shoveling door at the forward` end .of its fuel bin.

4. A locomotivetender having a vertically .adjustable shoveling platform at the forward end of its fuel bin, such platform. comprising a pair of plates hinged together .and' one Vthereof being hinged to the;bin `floor.

v `5. A locomotive tendenhaving avertically adjustable shoveling` platform at the for'- j ward end of its fuel bin, such platform comprising apair of plates hinged together and one thereof being hinged to; the bin floor,g. and a pair of'screw rods for' adjustably supporting' the platform. j

' 6. A locomotive tender having avertically adjustable shoveling platform at the forward end of its fuel bin, jsuch platform comprising a pair of plates hinged together and one thereof being. hinged to tlie bin floor, a.- pair of screwv rods for adjustably support-f' ing the platform, and link connection between the-rods and the platform.

. 7. A locomotive tender-having a shoveling platform at the forward end of the fuel binl and elevated above the iioor of the bin, and:-V

means for pushing fuel forwardly onto the .platform 8. A locomotive tenderhaving a shovel-y .ing platform at thel forward end of the fuel?.

bin and elevated above the ioor of the bin',.,

an inclined; apron leading from the bin floorto the platform, and means for pushing fuel forwardly onto the platform.

9. A locomotive tender having a shoveling forwardly onto the platform, such pushing means comprising al reciprocable head, a. gear rack attached to the head, a gear engaging the rack, and means for driving the gear.-

11. In a locomotive tender' having a fuel bin, the combination withA such bin of a fuel pusher comprising a reciprocable head, a

gear rack attached to the head, a gear engaging the rack, and means for driving the gear. 1 j

12. In a locomotive tender having a fuel bin, the combination with such bin of a fuel pusher comprising a reciprocable head, a gear rack attached to the head, a gear engaging the rack, and a fluid motor for driving the gear.

13. A locomotive tender having a fuel binv with an inclined rear wall, a shovelingfplat form at the forward end of the fuel bin and` elevated above the floor thereof, an inclined.

apron leading from the bin floor to the plat?` form, a fuel pusher reciprocable over thel .rear wall and floor of the tender and the.

apron.

14. A locomotive tender having a fuel bin.

with an inclined rear wall, a shoveling platform at the forward end of the fuel bin and.

with an inclined rear wall, a shoveling plat-y form at the forward end of the fuel bin and elevated above the floor thereof, an inclined apron leading from the bin floor to the platform, a jointed fuel pusher reciprocable 'over the rear wall and Hoor of the tender l proach to the forward plate when the latterv is raised from the Hoor of the bin.

17. A locomotive tender having a substantially lhorizontal shoveling platform at the forward end of its fuel bin, such platform being 4elevated above 'the floor the bin.

amarre v 18. ln combination, a locomotive having a ring deck, a tender having a fuel bin and at the forward end thereof a substantially horizontal shoveling platform, such plat- 5 form being elevated above the firing deck.

19. In combination, a locomotive having a firing deck, a tender having a fuel bin and at the forward end thereof a Substantially horizontal shoveling platform, such platform being elevated above the firing deck, and power means for pushing fuel forwardly in the bin onto the shoveling platform.

vCHARLES L. HEI SLER. 

